Me too. I mean, I love beer. I'm not always passionate about beer, but my love of beer hasn't gone away. My passion has always returned, too.
I was never "passionate" about writing. I love writing. I've been doing it for a while - like off and on for 50 years, nearly constant over the last ten. Sooooo - not a fad. Sorry. Just because people don't run around claiming "I couldn't live if I didn't write!" doesn't mean they aren't devoted to writing, or won't be as good at it. Some of the best stews in the world have to simmer, not boil.
I wouldn't dream of suggesting unpassionate people are not as good at writing, if we understand the word 'passion' differently. To me passion is when it you let something consume you, as I have let the ancient literature become my obsession. I love literature in general, but some aspects of it I am passionate about, while others I am simply interested in. I am a passionate person. That's just my personality type. However, dispassionate people - people who couldn't give a shit about writing, yes I do think they would be worse writers as a rule.
I was consciously avoiding the latter because of the former. Passion in the form I am talking about is an extremely useful asset in teaching, and academia - but some people are not built the same way I am.
Write your story in a friendly and easy to read and understand manner, add always some adventures and attractive para so that your story will not loss the interest from reading the story.
For becoming a writer, you need to think high and meaningful thoughts. Make yourself polite. Read lots of stories, articles and take ideas from the.
For me, it's on the bus to college in the morning or in bed trying to fall asleep at night. What about you?
This also happens to me. But another source is the shower, and when I'm driving a long distance. There's some kind of magic that goes on when I'm behind the wheel for an hour or more. I also get mad creative when I hold my 12-string guitar in my hands. Things get weird when that happens. The main thing, though, is that I get my best ideas when I'm supposed to be doing something else. If I'm at work, thinking about control systems and such, my mind always drifts to my stories. This goes back to my university days. I used to have to do assignments for grades, but I'd always be thinking of my songs or my stories. I was, it seems, strongly motivated to do whatever I was not supposed to be doing. This is still true today. Give me an engineering job and I'll be a productive creative writer. Give me nothing, and I'll probably sit here wishing I could play hooky.
The bad thing about getting ideas when you're about to fall asleep, you also get ideas like, "Oh, I used 'a' instead of 'an' ten pages ago, better get up and fix that immediately."
Usually I get them when I'm washing the dishes or swimming or working in the garden. But it could be anywhere, anytime. The worst is if I'm cooking something and it only needs another couple of minutes when the idea strikes, but the iPad is far, far away and I can't leave the stove because the dinner would be ruined. To eat or to create, that is the question Or this
during work (i work in retail and have no access to pen/paper or computer) or when im supposed to be studying...
Ideas usually come to me when I'm reading. I guess that's one reason why so many published writers recommend constant reading to aspiring writers.
Generally at completely inappropriate times, such as during a lecture who whilst training. I just have to try and save them for later :')
Anytime, anywhere. There has not been any patterns. When want to come up with something, it comes to me.
I'll tell you when and where I'm not when the best ideas come: Sitting down in a chair with my iPad on my lap with all the free time in the world.
If I need an idea, all I have to do is lay on my stomach. It's become a trigger for me (for reasons you really don't want to know). Roll onto stomach, muses show up. Because I know this, I'm never lacking in ideas. I simply write while on my stomach.
My writing ideas come to me without any warning no matter where I'm at or what I'm doing they come to me. for example I was on my way to a doctors appointment recently and a bunch of character names came to me. So I took out my Moleskine notebook and wrote them down I ended up with two pages of Character names.
